Shoreline Center for Wholistic Health

The Spring Yoga Class series runs through Wednesday, 5/22. Keep Yoga be at the center of your healthy and active lifestyle this Summer season. You can download a pdf of the upcoming Summer  2019 Yoga class schedule here.

Call Alan at (203)488-1700 for more information on how to get started. You can drop in anytime! 

Spring 2019 Yoga Series: march - may 2019

Fees: 
$15.00 per class pro-rated series rate for the ten-week series
$18.00 per class drop-in. You can join anytime!   

(Fee schedule does not include the Saturday Morning’s Posture and Functional Yoga class or Monday’s Bethany Gentle Yoga Class).

Call Alan at 203-488-1700 to register. 

• Morning Series
• Evening Series
• Yoga and Functional Movement for Posture Alignment, Pain Relief and Stress Management

EVENing Yoga Series

Sunday Mornings,  March 24 - May 119, 2019 (9 weeks)  

Yoga for Serenity, Stress Relief and Wellness 9:30 - 10:45 am (all levels of experience, gentle-moderate challenge)

Beginners and advanced students alike can enjoy this classical Yoga experience designed to help de-stress and energize to gear up for the spring season. Enjoy an in-depth exploration and balancing of body and mind to help you dissolve stress and move with greater ease and energy. Enjoy the power and peace inherent in this integrated approach to classical Yoga posture, breath work, meditation and imagery; intended to support the release of build flexibility and tone, release physical and energetic blockages that lead to stress and fatigue. As these seeds of distress are dissolved we bring the possibilities of unfolding balance, wellness, and inner peace.

Wednesday Mornings, March 20 - May 22, 2019 (10 weeks)  

Yoga Basics: Relax and Renew 9:30-10: 45 am (all levels of experience, gentle-moderate challenge)

Take a mid-morning break to enjoy a balanced Yoga and Meditation experience designed to support you throughout your day! Learn and expand upon this unique presentation of Yoga and additional awareness and movement practices designed to restore and renew body mind and spirit. Based upon a deep understanding of the layers and levels of bodily movement, alignment, and function, attention is given to core and outer physical strength, flexibility and overall balance. Meditation, awareness and mindful attention to breath enhances a sense of power, focus and deep stress release. Take this invitation to transform all of your life as you integrate this simple, potent and profound time spent moving, breathing and being more peacefully in each moment.

Evening Yoga Series

Tuesday Evenings  March 19 - May 21, 2019 (10 weeks)  

Yoga Basics: Flexibility and Stress Relief 6:00- 7:15 pm (all levels of experience, gentle-moderate challenge)

Learn and expand upon this unique presentation of yoga and additional awareness and movement practices designed to renew body mind and spirit. Restore and build flexibility, physical balance and tone as you release the accumulated effects of stress on your body and mind. With careful instruction safely and steadily develop a deep understanding of the layers and levels of bodily movement, alignment, and function to alleviate aches and pains and restore comfort and joy in your body. Meditation, awareness and mindful attention to breath enhances a sense of power, focus and deep stress release. Take this invitation to transform all of your life as you integrate this simple, potent and profound time spent moving, breathing and being more fully in the moment.

Yoga Beyond the Basics: Yoga Mastery through Somatic Exploration 7:30-8: 45 pm. (moderate challenge, some experience recommended)

Breakthrough the plateaus in your yoga practice as you stimulate deeper healing energies and integrate the profound benefits of yoga. Create an increasing connection to joy through your yoga practice amidst the challenges of living on and off the yoga mat.
Taking your Yoga to the next level doesn’t need to mean more demand physically, especially if the essence and depth of practice are compromised. This class integrates the deeper Yoga practices with the familiar and more advanced variations of Yoga postures. Elements of Somatic and Feldenkraisinspirec movement pracices as well as other creative functional movement modalities are integrated with the more traditional Yoga poses and mindfulness practices to further enhance the growth and transformational possibilities of this experience.

Wednesday Evenings   March 20 - May 22, 2019 (10 weeks)  

Kundalini Yoga Basics 4:30-5: 45 pm (all levels of experience)

Novices and experienced practitioners of yoga can enjoy this enlivening and enlightening Kundalini yoga experience! Kundalini yoga employs breathing practices with postures, movement stretching, and meditation in specific sequences and forms to bring maximum benefits and amazing benefits to all aspects of the Self. Utilize this amazing practice to support enhanced physical flexibility and tone, expanded energy, deep stress release, heightened awareness and transformational healing. Modifications to the practices are available to encourage any level of student to work at their own pace as they learn and explore this extraordinary synthesis of yoga practices. Have fun as you enjoy all that this powerful form of yoga can bring to your life!

Yoga Basics: Ageless Ease Yoga: 6:00-7: 15 pm (all levels of experience, gentle to moderate challenge)

Whether you are a novice or more advanced, recovering from pain and movement problems or simply seeking to move through blocks or limitations in your Yoga or exercise practice performance this class can help you to discover and shed limiting moment patterns to enjoy freedom and ease in Yoga. This class will employ a creative fusion of classic Yoga practices and cutting-edge techniques developed by present-day movement masters to unlock our innate intelligence to help you transform mental and physical patterns of pain and limitation. Enjoy this subtle, deep and remarkably powerful way of using awareness in motion to help regain pain-free movement, tone, and flexibility, address the effects of stress on body and mind. The higher practices of deep relaxation, breathwork and meditation are integrated into the experience to facilitate stress release and deepen inner peace and well-being on and off the yoga mat.

Ongoing Saturday Morning "Pain Free Yoga and Posture Series"
Yoga and Functional Movement for Posture Alignment, Pain Relief & Stress Management: 10:00-11:30am

​Late Spring series:  May 18 - June 29, 2019(6 weeks)no class on June 15th 
$96.00 for the 6-week series, $20.00 drop in. Classes are ongoing—Join Anytime!

Acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain can take the joy out of our most cherished activities. For some it is a distressing inconvenience, for others pain symptoms can change lives, negatively impacting recreational activities, mood and stress levels,  relationships, job performance and ultimately threaten livelihoods. Come here to discover how proper motion can be the potion to address the non-medical root causes of pain. Join others who have taken the first step on the path toward pain-free living.

Enjoy this special synthesis of the ancient practices of Yoga, informed and inspired by a range of therapeutic movement disciplines and the ingenious paradigm of Pete Egoscue. Learn how Repetitive Stress injury, Back pain, Tennis elbow, Bursitis, arthritis, low energy, dizziness and a full array of other chronic conditions may all have musculoskeletal misalignment their root cause. This class is designed to help you:

• Learn how and why postural misalignment is the cause of so much musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.
• Enjoy simple, accessible and pleasant functional Yoga and movement sequences designed to help you restore alignment, balance, and enhance awareness to systematically eliminate the musculoskeletal dysfunctions at the root of chronic pain.
• Improve overall strength and flexibility.
• Enjoy relaxing meditation and imagery practices to support your road to awareness and healing.
• Receive ongoing guidance and support to uncover obstacles that can arise on your journey toward wellness and come to understand the possibility that an active meaningful life is possible throughout the lifespan.